Description: This woman dresses like a well dressed Tanner does, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vani grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vani. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Tanner for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is greedy

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp).

Description: This eastern man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has wavy brown hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Sage; and he's in love

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a very tight haircut. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Born to a Cook, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her childhood dream was to be a Cook, but she was a colossal failure. After a long history of fighting, Nissa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Eye agate (9 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Jet (80 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. He has violet eyes and a grey hat with a white feather.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Small steel mirror.